SOVEREIGN OF DEATH

SOVEREIGN OF DEATH~(1)

The day that changed everything~ (1)

PART~(2)

I almost mocked myself in a loud laughter. To think I, Kanata Nagisa would get caught up in something as ridiculous as a cliched fantasy trope! The world no longer made sense to me! No, I shouldn allow myself to be overwhelmed. Something I could not comprehend occurred and now is not the time to be riddled with confusion.

I mean I wanted to scream cut the bull, but-

That aside, all evidence points towards the fact that we suddenly found ourselves in a castle from a classroom. If its not summoning then I don know how to explain the series of events.

The question now is, what should I do?. If I follow the usual scenario then someone should come out here any minute and ask us to fight a war for them. Was it a demon king? Well, whatever it is I really don want to bother getting involved. Im curious about this whole plot, but Im not nearly enough of a hero to involve myself with saving people.

So, the question is whats next on the agenda? Isn that obvious. I have already been summoned so that is unavoidable unless I find some way to travel back to the past. That is too much of a pain so I will give up on that option. For now, Ill just set my sights on getting out of here the first chance I get. However, I need information and its quite likely we won be able to go back to our own world so I shouldn set that as my goal. At Least not for now.

As I was there contemplating my future course of actions, the large door Suddenly opened.

[Introducing the sun of the empire, His majesty Florence V. Synth makes his entrance!]

A loud voice bellowed. A man with a composed air and long goat beard waltzed in like he owned the place and walked past us. His gait was heavy and filled to the brim with confidence. Behind him were armored men emanating the air of killing intent which I couldn help but sigh.

These kids, such murderous intent isn even as much as one percent of gramps. Do they think they can intimidate people with that? I scoffed at the childish play at work.

Soon, after a quick glance I had noticed everyone slouching over and trembling. Some had scared looks on their face, and I wont state who but I picked up the scent of pee.

I see, so thats it.

For normal people whod never experience this type of bloodlust they couldn even stand up. The kids from my class and everyone exposed to the murderous intent looked like they were on the verge of collapsing while I just sighed. His attempt at intimidation was lousy, if we were a group of trained fighters the king would have been humiliated beyond wonder. Unfortunately they were just normal students till a moment ago.

Looking down on the surroundings with a satisfied gaze the king began to speak.

[O Heroes that come from afar, please raise your heads!]

After his words, the pressure that his guards and himself released had disappeared. No, it hadn completely vanished since he still had that cocky look of a monarch meanwhile, I could tell he was a weakling. His aura was that of someone who never trained a day in his life and I could tell by the subtle movements of his body and his skeletal outline. I had no reason to be scared of him.

His eyes surveyed the crowd as if searching for something. I don know if he noticed me acting indifferent even before his childish pressure, but he seemed surprised at something and said Hou!.

[Anyways heroes, as I have said. I would like to give my thanks to you for answering our call. Many have hoped that this would have indeed worked but as many as we have managed to summon the ceremony seemed to have been wonderfully carried out.

Normally we should take care of your accommodations first, even so we have no time to waste and I would like to get into details quickly! –]

[W-Wait…could you please explain whats going on?]

This time the class pretty boy and the most popular boy in our grade spoke up. Amongst all the boys in the class I could say he was the most adored by girls and hated by boys. Seriously, he never had a guy friend since they always detested his very existence.

It wasn because he was popular. Far from it, boys could deal with it if it was just that. However, his attitude is the most disgusting thing about him. It was like he picked up his character from a dumpster. Why do I say so? While he spares no effort to make relationships with girls he looks down on the guys in our class, not just there but any guy.

He has no problem with going after a girl thats already dating someone. And even if that girl rejects him, hell do everything to get her and even go as far as telling the girl lies about her lover. No, Im sure no girl would reject him. His face is just too handsome for them to reject him. The moment he walks up to them and strikes up a conversation that girl will even drop her underwear. Its to the point of being scary. I just can understand what charm girls see other than a handsome face. Its obvious hes scum!

Not only that, he always tries to be the hero for women, while he never helps out a guy. If a girl fell down on the sidewalk, and another guy tried to help her up, hed push that guy away and force himself into a making a flag scenario. Annoying right? Ive seen it done a couple of times. In fact, it happened to me a couple of times I had to keep myself from breaking his neck.

Well, while his intentions are horrible its true that he does help girls. Still even if he didn , someone else would. He just likes to take credit for what other guys do.

And whats more annoying is that the guy knows what hes doing, in other words hes doing it on purpose.

Not that I really hate him, though he is the reason my childhood friend stopped talking to me really. I recall the start of school she tried walking up to me and mister handsome didn like that and spread a vicious rumor that Im a creepy molester. Unfortunately, she was one of those that believed the rumor.

[Ah yes, your right hero…your name please?]

[Aikawa Renji, p-please call me Renji sir]

[Oh, how polite, as expected of a hero!]

The grown man complimented the young man, at least to say that they were both acting. I can see the filthy aura oozing from both of them. The king is glad he has pawns to use while Renji is thinking hes some overpowered Protagonist thats about to build a harem in another world.

How predictable and deplorable for grown men to think like children.

[Now then, as far as explanations go. Allow me to start from the beginning…]

He began the explanation as if he was writing a novel. According to his words, the world was born out of energy released from the Gods, Yada Yada. Good energy made humanoid and intelligent species while bad energy made monsters and creatures without intelligence.

Humans lived in Settlements and continued to grow until countries were formed, yet monsters attacked non-stop. They needed a way to defend and learned magic as a means to it. However, that wasn enough to erase the threat completely. Monsters grew stronger and they were just mere humans that couldn go against those monsters and so easily was humanity pushed back.

Soon enough another threat appeared, the demon lord. The most vicious of all demons who controlled the monsters to do countless atrocities. They tried taking the fight to her directly, but the dark energy surrounding the castle was too great and they couldn even pass the Frontline of the demon kings defense. Because of that humanity could only defend and the fragile defenses of humanity began to whittle away one after the other.

What they needed was someone to save them before the fragile glass of defense was broken. A savior, a hero! Thats why they asked the Goddess to send them a hero and as she did, we were summoned.

[Thats why, please help us O heroes! The threat called the demon king is nigh, and humanity, as a last stand of defense you are our only hope]

~Demon king, are you kidding me?

~oi oi, even as a prank this is going too far. He must be on drugs.

The surroundings lit up as my classmates began to speak to each other about the information we just heard. Some were happy while some were anxious, another group just sat there digesting the information. I just stood there digesting it all so I wouldn forget everything that was said.

I see, a demon lord really exists. Not that I didn expect it but now I really don want to get involved. Even if I do get some super amazing ability, Ill still leave this group and go somewhere other than here. I mean, don kidnap someone and force them to fight you psychopaths. It was enough that I was suddenly dragged to some unknown realm, getting caught up in such common tale, I will gladly leave that role to Renji.

[The demon lord has slaughtered and pillaged most of the human Settlements. Those we sent to deal with them never came back and those that do, end up severely injured. This has taken a severe toll on humanity.

Its the same situation wherever you go, because of this nowhere is safe but after deliberation we finally came to a decision.

That is to summon the heroes who have a certain amount of immunity to the dark energy to defeat the demon king. Im sorry to have to rely on you but please save us dear heroes]

A voice that matched the beautiful face filled the room and a girl in a wonderful pink and white dress showed up. She had luscious pink hair that hung down to her waist and a composed air contrary to her pink hair. She strode to the throne then stood beside the king. Her body was also captivating and it was obvious how well she was brought up, she looked even more poised than your usual rich young lady. No, that might not be true.

[Please, we need you!]

She begged with a sweet voice and tears in her eyes. The dripping tears that fell down her cheeks accentuated her beauty making her plea more appealing.

Needless to say, that all the guys in the room stopped thinking and short circuited this moment. It was the first time they ever saw such a beauty, not to mention she was begging them so how could they refuse.

[W-We will do our best! Uhm…]

[My name is princess Maria, nice to meet you]

The first to reply was of course Renji. I bet he thought he could add her to his harem, well looking at her attitude if he does become the hero, it seems he has a good chance. Its hilarious how things are unfolding just like a fantasy novel. This guy might just end up the protagonist that saves the world and builds a super harem.

[Alright heroes, we want your help but first we have to figure out your talents and field of expertise in order to know how to train you so please Chant status in your minds]

Status? Like that thing in games huh. If its a fantasy world then I guess this also has to exist but this might turn me into an embarrassing chuunibyou if I have to pose everything to activate my skill.

Status

[Nagisa Kanata–(Lv.1) ]

[Class– Necromancer]

[Trait – Dead Rise (SSS), Master (EX)]

[Mana–100/100]

”Skills ”

[Perception(B+)] [Swordplay(S-)] [Martial Arts(A+)] [Kanata Footwork(S)] [Body Control(A)] [Oneness(D)]

Ooohh, thats actually amazing. This is the status thingy huh? Now that I see it, I feel like my training has paid off somewhat.

Hm, thats strange. Why is Oneness so low? Is it low though? I really don know whats high or whats low in this world so I might have to wait until they explain about the ranking system. But if I think back, even though I gained oneness what I can use right now is hardly even at the level its fully capable of.

Itd be better if it was numerical value rather than alphabetical

Everything other than Oneness seems high at the least. For Perception I thought it would be at least the highest since even gramps might have a hard time hiding from me or sneaking up on me. Its not that my Perception is that great, its more like I have this feeling something is out of place. Though Itd be hard to block an attack since I wouldn know where he was but Id feel something was strange.

Swordplay seems to be the highest. Thats natural since I hardly miss out on training, other than the times when I have broken bones from training I don really miss out. Not to brag but I swing my sword every day and I even managed to beat gramps most times now.

See now, gramps strong point is in martial arts. Rather, Im the one whos more skilled in swordsmanship. This is something I managed to notice overtime, though his movements and attacks suggest he trains diligently and is a strong swordsmanship so its hard to find openings when fighting him. Its like theres a limit there for him. I somehow preceded his limit and went higher by training with him.

From what I heard, my father was also blessed with the sword but he was a rapier user and didn use traditional swords like me. Even so, my father had that much talent. I used to think about being stronger than my dad, but my grandfather never told me that I surpassed my father so Im thinking that Im generally weaker even as I am now.

Either way, its natural for my martial arts to be lower than swordsmanship since I enthusiastically practiced the sword. I do like martial arts but not as much as the sword so I mostly train in the sword.

Next is the Kanata Footwork Technique. Its a movement technique that helps one to increase their mobility during battle. I had to walk in this weird way when I was younger in order to learn it. It was strange at first but after I swung my sword using the Footwork, my swings were more powerful and faster than before so I was more than happy to learn and practiced it more.

So, its S-rank too…

Thats good. Other than that, my mana was one hundred, the status showed my name and a class.

Judging by game logic the class should be what allows me to use certain class specific skills. For example, swordsman uses swordsmanship, mage uses magic, etc. But Im a Necromancer, which sounds pretty ominous to me. I don know about this world but in my world these classes are normally depicted in a terrible way.

I should probably keep a lid on it

For now, lets just make something up. Luckily, they can see my status unless I allow it so I can just say my class is chef or make something up.

Next, I also have two traits, but there is EX next to them. Not sure whether its high or low but I can look at that later.

Levels also seem to be a concept here so you can grow by raising your level huh. Typical fantasy world.

I glanced at my classmates looking at their status figures dumbfounded, somewhere smiling with that Otaku grin that expresses they can finally release their power(Chuunibyou stupidity) and then in the middle of that Renji, it was just for a second but as I stated I can see at a higher speed than usual so I managed to see his evil grin before he changed back into a worried look.

Phew, this is bullshit

I bet he has some ridiculous class like a hero? Damn his luck is too good.

[Now then, please tell us your classes and well start from Sir Renji]

The Princess descended the stairs and stood before him smiling. Even though I almost got caught in that smile, my training to numb my desires paid off and I resisted well. Good job, me!

[Y-Yes, I have a class called hero]

[Ooo!] The king exclaimed.

[T-The hero, is it? Thats the legendary class! How splendid]

The Princess was visibly flustered as she spoke and I couldn help but sigh as I expected this development. After that, one by one they told their classes to the Princess. By the way my childhood friend seemed to have gotten a Saint class.

[And you, you are the last. Would you please tell us your class?]

Now it was my turn. I faced the princess and as I thought, she was a beauty. However, I had training so I could resist this level of temptation. Now if she were to wear a bikini before me thatd be different…I think Id turn into a beast and get myself executed on the spot.

[Ehem…yes, my name is not important. My class is a little strange but, I guess you won mind…Im a, chef]

[Yes yes…a chef?]

[Pfft!]

This time she was flustered for a different reason. The others broke out in laughter and jeered at me. I could tell instantly that I made the wrong choice, a chef class is certainly strange! Still, it was the only thing I could think of at the time, but even then, Ahhhhh!!!

[It certainly is strange that you have such a class…a summoned one would normally have combat skill and class, is it possible that you were just caught up in the whole thing?]

Caught up? My thoughts then started to gather as I heard her words. Did she think I wasn supposed to be summoned and was just involved in the incident? Considering you summoned a whole grade of people thats a bit stupid–wait, I could use this.

[T-Thats right! I was indeed just caught up in this Summoning. And to think Id end up in another world with an inept skill. Ah, I can even protect myself…oh what shall I do now with this pitiful life of mine!!!]

Falling on my knees as if I was overwhelmed by despair, tears in my eyes ran down my cheek as I cried out my thoughts. I was used to acting since I had to hide my true self anyway. The surroundings naturally weren quiet either.

~He wasn a hero?

~no wonder, he looks so weak

~But to think we summoned an incompetent

The nobles standing at the side of the throne room joined in with their unnecessary statements provoking me wrath.

I CAN HEAR YOU! Damn you pig bellied nobles thinking you
e the shit! If I had a sword, Id cut you into minced pork slices right now!

No, calm down or your act will be seen through! Altering my expressing I made sure to make it seem as if their words had not gotten to me, With a smile, I thought that i could succeed with my act and even the princess believed my lies.

[O-Oh thats sad to hear…what are we going to do really, father?]

She glanced at the king.

[Naturally we can keep trash so there is no other choice. Tch, to think I had my court mages waste magic on this trash who can even use combat skill…Guards!]

~Yes, your majesty!

The situation had derailed in a completely different way than I had expected.